Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, soft shell blue crab. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Commercial fishermen harvest Blue Crabs on the east coast and hold them in tanks and monitor them for molting. After each crab have molted, they are quickly removed from the tank to stop the shell from hardening. Blue Crab Trading takes pride in our product and strives for satisfaction.
Soft shell blue crab is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Soft shell blue crab is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook soft shell blue crab using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Soft shell blue crab:
- Make ready Soft shell blue crab
- Prepare 2 eggs (room temp)
- Take 1 cup butter milk
- Get 1 tsp Cajun season
- Make ready Salt/ pepper
- Get 2 cups self rising flour
- Prepare 1 tbsp Old Bay seasoning
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Take Peanut or vegetable oil
A culinary delight that makes mouths water every time a softy dish is mentioned (the crabbers and I call em' softies). The MD drivers license has a lovely little blue crab in the corner. Maryland Soft Shell Crabs: Blue crabs go through a molting process shedding its outer shell and leaving a delicate soft shell crab that is exploding with flavor. Several methods for preparing soft shell crabs are baked, sauteed, deep fried, or pan fried.
Steps to make Soft shell blue crab:
- Rinse off blue crab and place on paper towel to drain. Crack both eggs in a bowl and add buttermilk. Add Cajun seasoning and mix. Add a pinch of salt and pepper. Turn on stove to medium heat and allow oil to heat up. Preferably in a cast iron skillet or heavy bottom pan.
- Add flour and remainder of seasoning into paper bag and shake to blend together.
- Add blue crab to flour. Dust off excess and add to egg mixture. Cover completely in egg. Add back to the bag of seasoned flour. Cover entire crab in flour. Add a pinch of flour to see if oil is ready to fry if it’s bubbling when the flour is added, it ready, if not allow oil to continue to heat. You may need to turn the heat up slightly above medium…
- Fry until golden. Take out and drain excess oil on paper towel while you prepare to make your Po boy sandwich
Other ways of cooking will give equally tasty results. Pity even more the soft-shell blue crab, which has shed its protective shell during the growing months of roughly May through September, so that it can form a Pity, also, the cook, who has to slaughter the soft-shell crab in what feels like the most brutal way possible: by cutting off its face, ripping free its. Soft-shelled crabs and hard-shelled crabs are of the same species. Blue crabs have a hard shell or exoskeleton. In order for the crab to grow, it must periodically shed its shell in a process called molting.
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